Gothic Ivories Project | Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

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Paris, Musée de Cluny-Musée national du Moyen Âge

Cl. 2528

Ivory;metal (later ring for hanging)

Height: 99mm
Width: 60mm

Register 1: seated Virgin and Child with saint John the Baptist and female saint holding a martyr's palm and a book.
Register 2: seated Christ with saint James the Greater and saint Christopher.

Koechlin Number: 0348

Koechlin 1924: France, end of 14th century (says right wing).
Museum's opinion 2010: France, 14th century or 19th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two hinges on the right side.

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Provenance
Given in 1855 by M. Michon, Saint-Florentin (Yonne).

Bibliography
E. Du Sommerard, Catalogue et description des antiquités et objets d'art exposés au musée de Cluny (Paris, 1883), no. 1100.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 180; II, no. 348.

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